Customer Reviews

Bred 2 Die Born 2 Live [Vinyl]

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

First of all let me clearly state that im from Atlanta and I am a diehard fan of Lil Scrappy and that is why it breaks my heart to tell you that this CD is garbage. Besides Money in the Bank there are no other standout cuts and it is a shame because the underground mixtape he dropped with DJ Don Cannon early last year was on fire, He and Cannon delivered all new tracks and there were all on point, that was of course before 50's influence which brings us to our problem. The influence of Curtis Jackson A.K.A 50 Cent is very clear on this album. I like 50 but he knows little of the way we make records down south. If the G-Unit boss would have just stayed out he way and let Scrappy pick and choose his own tracks, verses etc. everything may have been fine. The guy is a control freak and as a result nobody in the "A" is pumping this and it is a shame because when Scrappy is on point the boy is unstoppable. This CD is garbage plain and simple and 50's influence is going to put the the crown prince of the south's career in serious jerpody unless he quickly wise's up. This is an honest review from a fan that has been down since day one.I have bought all the mixtapes and everything else he's dropped but, im telling you If you the consumer buy this Cd you will regret it and to Scrappy ditch the G Unit do what's in your heart and get back to business.

Lil Scrappy's (A.K.A. Darryl Kevin Richardson II) studio debut solo album is "Bred 2 Die Born 2 Live" (2006) a twenty track release which features geust appearances from Young Joc, Stayfresh, Young Buck, Young Dro, Bohagon, Lil Jon, Three 6 Mafia, Playboy, Lloyd Banks, Yo Gotti, Lil Chris, Nook, Olivia, 50 Cent, Sean P (1/2 of the Youngbloodz) and E-40. The albums singles are "Money In The Bank" feat. Young Buck and "Gangsta Gangsta". The real highlight of this album for me is the Jonathan Rotem produced "Livin in the Projects", a cut which samples 2Pac (on the chorus), and has Lil Scrappy reflecting on his days of being dirt poor and struggling to make it. Another current favorite of mine is the Lil Jon produced "Born 2 Live", feeling Scrappy's lyrics and the production to this hard hitting cut. The laidback and short "G-****" is a feel good track which features G-Unit's singer Olivia dropping some smooth vocals. Another standout for me has Scrappy teaming up with 50 Cent for "N**** What's Up". I am generally not a fan of crunk music and skip over a fair bit of this album, Lil Scrappy shows some diversity on this release though making "Bred 2 Die Born 2 Live" a decent release worth checking out.

Short and simple, if Scrap ain't gettin' crunk, I really can't feel 'em. There are a few tracks where he comes across okay without crunk beats like "Money In The Bank" featuring Young Buck and "Living In The Projects." One of the standouts, in my opinion, is "Posted In The Club" featuring Three Six Mafia. I'm a huge fan of HCP and their production and it's tracks like this that Scrappy sounds best over. Then there are some rowdy joints like "Gangsta Gangsta" and "Been A Boss" featuring Bohagon & Young Dro (call me crazy, but I'm starting to take a liking to Young Dro) that remind you of the old Scrappy.

The problem here is the obscene amounts of skip material to be found on the album. "Get Right" and "N**** What's Up" are decent at best. You shouldn't listen to "Touching Everything" while operating heavy machinery. "I'm Back", "P**** Poppin'", "Baby Daddy", and "Born To Live" are just plain terrible. There are plenty of songs that fall under the same categories, but then I'd be here all day typing if I tried to list them all. Couple that with the fact that, like another reviewer said, there are times where Scrap sounds like T.I. That's not a good look at all.

Bred 2 Die, Born 2 Live isn't that great a follow up to his debut. While I won't call it a step backward, I'd definitely call it a side step. Hopefully he'll ditch G-Unit and get crunk again. G-Unit has a way of dragging new signees down (like Mobb Deep) and, even though they aren't all that prevalent on this CD, this CD seems to taking the same course. I recommend downloading this one and testing it out before you actually pay for it.

Standout Tracks: Been A Boss feat. Bohagon & Young Dro, Posted In The Club feat. Three Six Mafia (My Favorite), Living In The Projects, Money In The Bank [Remix] feat. Young Buck, and Gangsta Gangsta

Short and simple, if Scrap ain't gettin' crunk, I really can't feel 'em. There are a few tracks where he comes across okay without crunk beats like "Money In The Bank" featuring Young Buck and "Living In The Projects." One of the standouts, in my opinion, is "Posted In The Club" featuring Three Six Mafia. I'm a huge fan of HCP and their production and it's tracks like this that Scrappy sounds best over. Then there are some rowdy joints like "Gangsta Gangsta" and "Been A Boss" featuring Bohagon & Young Dro (call me crazy, but I'm starting to take a liking to Young Dro) that remind you of the old Scrappy.

The problem here is the obscene amounts of skip material to be found on the album. "Get Right" and "N**** What's Up" are decent at best. You shouldn't listen to "Touching Everything" while operating heavy machinery. "I'm Back", "P**** Poppin'", "Baby Daddy", and "Born To Live" are just plain terrible. There are plenty of songs that fall under the same categories, but then I'd be here all day typing if I tried to list them all. Couple that with the fact that, like another reviewer said, there are times where Scrap sounds like T.I. That's not a good look at all.

Bred 2 Die, Born 2 Live isn't that great a follow up to his debut. While I won't call it a step backward, I'd definitely call it a side step. Hopefully he'll ditch G-Unit and get crunk again. G-Unit has a way of dragging new signees down (like Mobb Deep) and, even though they aren't all that prevalent on this CD, this CD seems to taking the same course. I recommend downloading this one and testing it out before you actually pay for it.

Standout Tracks: Been A Boss feat. Bohagon & Young Dro, Posted In The Club feat. Three Six Mafia (My Favorite), Living In The Projects, Money In The Bank [Remix] feat. Young Buck, and Gangsta Gangsta

If there's any crunk rapper I can tolerate from Atlanta, Lil' Scrappy'd most likely be it; in fact, I actually quite like Scrappy's style. He is rather weak as an actual emcee, but he has enough charisma to carry him over some tight production - and throughout this album, the production does continue to bang, and Scrappy's charisma does glimmer rather brightly. However, charisma can only go so far without polished skills.

While I've said in the past that Scrappy is the only rapper outside of the legendary Onyx crew who should be screaming into a microphone, Scrappy isn't nearly up to par with Sticky, Fredro, or even the obscure Sonsee when it comes to skills an emcee. The wordplay isn't there, and Scrappy's a little too obsessed with materialism to come close to Onyx's rugged subject matter. Scrappy is a good modern hardcore emcee, and even one of the better members of the G-Unit collective; however, that's not a difficult spot to obtain.

He isn't as skilled lyrically as Lloyd Banks, he isn't nearly as charismatic as Young Buck(as the Money In The Bank single clearly reveals), and he can't even match today's Mobb Deep's gulliness; but he does show more promise than the likes of Young Hot Rod, Tony Yayo, or 50 Cent. Musically, this is probably the most well-produced album to come from the G-Unit camp this year(which isn't considerabley difficult, seeing there's only been two other G-Unit releases, and both suffered from borderline terrible production). It isn't neccessarily crunk; it has enough funky Southern grooves to it to make this chill out music. While Scrappy does sound much more comfortable over the crunk beats such as on "Gangsta Gangsta," he doesn't sound too bad when he actually raps in his normal tone of voice; however, he DOES sound a little too much like his fellow ATLien, T.I. When Scrappy screams, as he does quite often, his style is all his own; when he raps on songs such as "Livin' In The Projects," you have to check out exactly whose album you're listening to, because you could've sworn Tip'd had jumped on the track.

There are some highlights, definitely; the first single, Money In The Bank, I'm Back, the aforementioned Livin' In The Projects, Born To Live, Get Right, Baby Daddy, Like Me, and Lord Have Mercy are all terrific cuts, thanks to Scrappy's charisma and the fantastic production. However, this album is honestly riddled with cliches, and examples of very weak emceeing at times.

When it comes to his commercial contemporaries, Scrappy fairs fairly well. Scrappy may not possess the talent of T.I., the wit of Lil' Wayne, or even the connection to streets that Young Jeezy possesses, but he's good at what he does, just like the three other rappers mentioned. A little too cliche for the underground crowd, but worth it if you wanna see what Scrappy's about; the mainstream cats should definitely be feeling it, because there's plenty of hot beats and catchy hooks for them. In the end, it's a decent effort worth buying as long as you know what to expect from it, and would find interest in an interesting rapper, who falls victim to mainstream standards. It's a keeper, but doesn't really exceed average status.

Lord Have Mercy on me, never thought lil scrappy could ever come clean. the beats are clean and at times crink, if it wasnt 4 a couple tracks like p**** pop, it would have been a-lot better. Def the best tracks are Livin In the Projects with Pac R.I.P., Born 2 Live, and Lord Have Mercy, if u cant bump this then slap yourself, BME! wheres crunk rock?

Scrappy comes through with a pretty good effort on this album. He is not as "crunk" as people expected him to be (which is a good thing). And his blend with G-Unit is definetly a good mix for him. The only problems are their are few too many fillers and too much Lil Jon. If Scrappy wants to be taken seriously he needs to cut away from his "crunk" origins. Other then that, a good debut.

I never really paid a whole lot of attention to Lil Scrappy because when I was first introduced to him, he was with Trillville, and I REALLY couldn't get into HIM (or them, or whatever the situation was). But now Scrappy is off on his own and released his album Bred 2 Die Born 2 Live, which is actually pretty good.

Scrappy now seems to be an unofficial member of the G-Unit family, considering 50 Cent produced much of the album (although the only song he appears on is "N What's Up"). And the songs are much better than I expected, especially the album's opener, "I'm Back". Other highlights include "Gangsta Gangsta", "Money in the Bank", "Posted in the Club" and "Get Right", as well as the hidden track, "Oh Yeah". "Livin' in the Projects" would also be great if I overlooked the fact that the chorus is simply a snippet of Tupac's verse from Scarface's "Smile".

This album is 74 minutes long, and I know just what songs to get rid of to cut it down to size. First, I would lose the material that uses the played-out subject matter: case in point, "Anutha Country Story" (although it's only a skit) is just that. And the obligatory end-of-album spiritual song "Lord Have Mercy" doesn't do anything for me (and I still don't understand why rappers think it's a good idea to curse in songs about God). To say you've heard "P Poppin'" before would be an understatement, and "Baby Daddy" has Scrap not understanding why his girl is leaving after he cheated (is there a brain in the house?).

There's also a song called "Police" that deals with racial profiling, and the skit that precedes it has a fake white officer pulling Scrappy and his buddy over for apparently no reason (does no one understand that that kind of skit was NEVER funny?). Anyway, despite a few road bumps, Bred 2 Die Born 2 Live proves that Lil Scrappy indeed has what it takes to have his career live on, so it's worth checking out.

Anthony Rupert

Lil' Scrappy has a lot going against him with Bred 2 Die Born 2 Live. He's commercial so it's easy to say, pre-listen, that he'll surely sell out and give us weak slow ballads, a lot of singing, and a mixture of corny beats and lyrics. Your enjoyment will probably depend upon how much you liked Lil' Scrappy coming in. I was a modest fan, I think he definitely has talent and he's surrounded himself with accomplished rappers (Lil' Jon, 50 Cent), I'm not a huge fan of Jon or 50 but I'd be remiss if I'd say that they haven't put out a couple catchy songs in their day. However, on Bred... it seems as though Scrappy has come into his own and has put out a quality rap CD despite having so many low expectations.

Lil' Scrappy is a good rapper with a pretty good flow, some great beats, and good guest rappers. Past that, it's your preference against mine. Since I'm not a rap purist I haven't heard too much new, quality, stuff come out of the genre since Chamillionaire's The Sound Of Revenge. However, I whole-heartedly think that we've been given an above average CD in Bred 2 Die Born 2 Live. For the most part you have pounding bass lines, hard beats, and intense rapping from all musicians. The ballads are kept to a complete minimum, probably becuase Scrappy doesn't have a flow meant for slower songs. I hate slow rap songs so this doesn't bother me in the least.

If you were to take out all of the lame, tired, and unwanted skits, you'd be left with a solid CD. Songs like I'm Back, Gangsta Gangsta, Posted In The Club, and Born To Live all are reminescent of No Problems but also show signs of growth (albeit not much). Past that it's typical rap topics...girls, money, cops, and being broke as a child. While the topics are tried, they work, besides who listens to rap for the lyrics? The only real letdown is found in the form of G-S***, which is a slower song. Other than that, Touching Everything, Livin In The Projects, Police, Like Me, N**** What's Up, and the excellent Lord Have Mercy are all easy to listen to.

My favorite songs are I'm Back, Gangsta Gangsta, Posted In The Club, Born To Live, and Lord Have Mercy. If you THINK you might like this CD, check it out. By no means is Bred... groundbreaking but it certainly isn't giving the genre a bad name. Lil' Scrappy definitely proves his worth over the duration of the disc and I'm sure he'll turn out to be quite the heavy hitter in the future. Here's looking forward to further outings from the scrappy one.

one of the best cd's dat came dis year